Careful, that’s my load bearing delusion

Every time I see a trailer for an A24 movie, my first thought is "the nature of humanity is just that every so often someone accidentally invents Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? again"

Four stills from the movie Clue (1985) showing Wadsworth (Tim Curry) and Mrs White (Madeline Kahn) having a conversation in a library. Miss Scarlet (Lesley Ann Warren) is present but has no lines. Each line is in a different still. Wadsworth: Your first husband also disappeared. Mrs. White: That was his job. He was an illusionist. Wadsworth: But he never reappeared. Mrs. White: He wasn't a very good illusionist.

Spilled boiling water on my leg and, worse, lost some of my ravioli to the sink.

0/5 stars, do not recommend.

Support the USPS

we need USPS so fucking bad you guys gotta know *grabs you by the shoulders* you gotta understand how fucking important USPS is off my god please if you fight for anything fight for this im begging you. oh my god. i would rather kms than have to use UPS or FedEx are you listening

Been listening to multi-hour ambient videos that loop selections from different Zelda soundtracks and it's amazing how many songs are just Zelda's Lullaby and/or the Main Theme in a different font. That's how you know the leitmotif hits.

What's so amazing about Jim Henson as a puppeteer is that he could literally be explaining that Kermit is made out of felt and ping pong balls and yet Kermit still feels alive the whole time he's doing it

The thing I'm learning today is that the close caption team at NBC really can't parse Italian.

Hirudo medicinalis - Wikipedia

And this is also the most minor of points, but we do in fact still use medical leeches. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hirudo_...

FINALLY I can post the french Cancan on Bluesky!!

One of my resolutions is to write more, and I'm gonna start before 2026 can get to me. New chapter is up! archiveofourown.org/works/608793...

i am not a toy. i am not a christmas present. i am a 3,000 pound semi aquatic liability. please think hard before gifting a hippopotamus this christmas.

The ACA isn't just "health care for people who don't have a conventional employer." It also disallows something that was incredibly common 20 years ago, which I fear is getting lost to generational memory: insurance companies could deny you health care for essentially any previous health problem.

Transparent aluminum

I know those "50 Songs You Didn't Know Were Covers" videos on YouTube are click bait, and, yes, all of the usual suspects are here, but expecting me to believe that Joe Cocker wrote "With a Little Help from My Friends" does stretch credibility a bit.

While there are legitimate reasons to homeschool your kid (health issues, special needs, etc.) you should have to 1) petition and qualify for it, as opposed to just pulling your kid, and 2) it's a program where a govt funded educator comes to you 6 hrs/day, 5 days/wk, with a standardized curriculum

Is Pokopia post-apocalyptic?

Five guys with the f and the E light off

Picard: there ARE FOUR GUYS! FOUR

Cover of “233 Celsius” by Ray Bradbury

The first (1955) Danish edition of Ray Bradbury’s FAHRENHEIT 451. Later editions did not convert the title, so this is the only SI-compatible edition! 🎢

"Qu'ils mangent de la brioche," I believe is the phrase.

US farmers are saying they "just need temporary help, until things get better."

Here's the thing. US farm exports- which are mostly soy- CANNOT get better.

Other countries expanded their soy industries to fill China's demand.

We've walled ourselves out of the global market, folks. This is it.

STOP WHAT UR DOING THIS IS IMPORTANT

A still from Futurama with Prof. Farnsworth talking on a phone. It is captioned with the dialogue "To shreds, you say."

I'd say "As opposed to DC?" but there are other factors at play here.

This is all to say that IHeartRadio doesn't know what they're doing anymore, if they ever did, and "Sombody Told Me" by The Killers is not Classic Rock by anyone's definition.

It's not that all of the acts before Nirvana disappeared overnight, but the sound of mainstream rock changed, and, more importantly, the market changed. Genre in this sense is about marketing, after all, and when the markets change, so do the genres.

It's not even an age thing-- Classic Rock is a genre with a specific time lock of the late 60s through the 70s. There's an argument for going as late as the mid-80s, and Wikipedia has it going through the mid-90s. Personally, I'd say Nirvana is the dividing line-- Classic Rock ended with Grunge.

The psychic damage I take when the radio comes on in the morning and the "classic rock" station is playing a song from this century.